Heat engines convert thermal energy into mechanical work in a cyclic process. Similarly, information engines convert information into usable energy. The concept dates back to Maxwell’s demon and was later formalized in the Szilard engine. Classical implementations have used colloidal particles, b…
Title: Exploiting Band Topology in PhotonicsSpeaker: Chong YidongTime:2025-10-21 10:00Venue:Room W105, Physics BuildingAbstract: Topological photonics is a field of photonics that aims to generate photonic structures …
Professor Chen Ning Yang, a world-renowned physicist, Nobel Laureate in Physics, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Professor at Tsinghua University, and Honorary Director of the Instit…
Recently, the Association of Asia-Pacific Physical Societies (AAPPS) and the Asia-Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics (APCTP) have awarded tenured associate professor Yong-Chun Liu from the Depar…
The 2023 State Preeminent Science and Technology Award, China’s top scientific honor, was granted to academician Xue Qikun for his outstanding contribution to scientific and technological innovatio…
On April 19, 2024, the opening ceremony of the National Conference on Low Temperature Physics was held in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, at which the winners of the 7th Sir Martin Wood Science Prize for…
